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25-6713 Nebraska, ex rel. Isaac D. Koch v. District Court of Nebraska, Platte County Nebraska 2026-02-04 Pending IFP constitutional-law contract-clause dissolution-statute freedom-of-conscience remedy void-writ What harm must a void writ burden one with before a remedy obtains? Whether unilateral dissolution statutes may be held repugnant to the contract cla…
25-6687 Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-02-02 Pending IFP contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric…
25-315 Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker Michigan 2025-09-17 Denied Response Waived contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages Whether the Michigan judiciary violated Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by rendering legally impossible rulings regarding propert…
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, where the di…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the parties…
24-6934 Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-04-07 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract violates the Contract Clause and Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
23-1220 Building and Realty Institute of Westchester and Putnam Counties, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) contract-clause due-process housing-stability investment-expectations market-value property-rights rent-control takings takings-clause tenant-protection Whether the changes made by the HSTPA effect physical takings, and as applied takings, and violate both the Due Process and Contract Clauses of the Co…
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-589 Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. Maryland 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law Whether the Maryland Orphans' Court violated the decedent's and sole-legatee's equal-protection, due-process, property-interest, contract-clause, raci…
23-383 Karen C. Yeh Ho v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause contracts due-process equal-protection foreclosure mortgage-modification takings Whether Respondent voided and denial of permanent streamline mortgage modification agreement is a violation of United States Constitution
22-948 Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. Michigan 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division violate the US Constitution Contract Clause when it used the Michigan P.W.F.B.A st…
22-6529 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Delaware 2023-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy commerce-clause compact-clause constitutional-law contract-clause corporate-dissolution interstate-commerce standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a corporation chartered for interstate commerce can be involuntarily dissolved and wound up in a state court other than the charter state
22-476 Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings Whether the removal of police officers' disciplinary rights contained in their collective bargaining agreement substantially impairs that agreement in…
22-5948 Brett W. Cormier v. Florida Florida 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution Did the State of Florida violate Art. I, Sect. 10 of the United States Constitution when it impaired the obligation of petitioner's contracts by charg…
21-1084 Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2022-02-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings Does the Obligation of Contracts Clause prohibit the abrogation of the Commonwealth's agreement to preserve a monument?
21-7043 Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing Does the judiciary's failure to provide a fair trial and hearing violate due process and erode public confidence in the courts?
21-999 Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a commercial enterprise for profit with the United States under Cooperative Federalism to be subjected to …
21-809 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-01 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights contract-clause due-process eviction-moratorium property-rights standing strict-scrutiny takings takings-clause Whether a Legislature's Closing of Landlord-Tenant Court Violates Access to the Court
21-801 Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2021-11-30 Denied civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting?
21-289 Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with equal-justice
20-1466 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract conf…
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-22 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus
20-1112 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis Whether Justice Barrett must enforce the Supreme Court's stare decisis precedents prohibiting repudiation of government-issued patent grants
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues?
20-560 Brian Sullivan, et al. v. Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause emergency-measure government-contracts less-deferential-standard reasonable-and-necessary state-impairment wage-freeze Whether the Court should re-examine the 'reasonable and necessary' test, applied under a 'less deferential' standard, when a State impairs its own con…
19-8750 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-19 Dismissed IFP constitution-of-the-united-states constitutional-impairment contract-clause due-process equal-protection impairment-of-contract judicial-malfeasance patent-contract patent-contract-grant stare-decisis Whether the inventor's government-issued patent contract grant is protected by the Constitution of the United States
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants
19-1314 Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille New Hampshire 2020-05-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights Whether the NH statute governing tenant eviction or the NH Supreme Court's interpretation of that statute resulted in an unlawful impairment of a cont…
19-1308 Bernard Morello, et al. v. Seaway Crude Pipeline Company, LLC Texas 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limitations contract contract-circumvention contract-clause due-process eminent-domain highest-and-best-use judicial-authority judicial-review just-compensation legislative-limitations property-rights takings Whether eminent domain can be used as mere pretext to rewrite the parties' own prior bargains, or otherwise circumvent existing obligations in a previ…
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan…
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute…
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania 2019-12-18 Dismissed IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d…
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18-9226 Anne A. Sears v. Lucas D. Bottorff, et al. Tennessee 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-checks contract-clause due-process elderly-protection judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-police-power What is the minimum level of judicial checks and balances constitutionally required of the judiciary and each judge when reviewing litigation involvin…
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-8188 Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution Whether the plea agreement affirmed by the lower tribunal judgment violated the contract and due process clauses of the United States Constitution
18-198 Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law Whether a plaintiff should be allowed to plead facts related to a collective bargaining agreement and administrative regulations under §1981 and Title…